Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [conj] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hobby that demands complete attention is refreshing because it is totally absorbing . |
| 2 | John Hasted , professor of physics at Birkbeck College , University of London , and an investigator of the paranormal , was very wary when told that Shaw and Edwards had been fakers ‘ It 's possible that it 's true , ’ he told New Scientist Asked about his conclusions from his own work he said ‘ I accept that there are , shall we say , pulses of paranormal action which take the form of mini-acoustical shock waves . |
| 3 | They 're , when you 're talking about the normal household gloss , yes it is flammable but it 's not a , nowhere near as flammable as your cellulose thinners that you spray your car with and things like that , your touch up sprays , because it does n't contain the amount of petroleum adhesive er additive I should say , in the er in its mixture as does er |
| 4 | Well it is dry but it 's still |
| 5 | It is dry and it is almost aggressively refreshing — great starbursts of lime juice and orange peel and just a little grapeyness , creating a most unusual citrus cocktail for a warm , spring day . |
| 6 | But today he 's alive and it 's magic . |
| 7 | It 's zany , it 's irreverent and it 's brimful of right-on attitudes , but I found it virtually impossible to raise a smile , never mind a laugh . |
| 8 | The vagueness of this is understandable if it was simply intended to encourage the raising of a fleet before the meeting discussed it , and the archbishop later inserted with his own hand into a version of this chapter the words " if it is decided upon " . |
| 9 | Shatov 's murder , in the world of this novel , is momentous because it is potentially unremarkable . |
| 10 | It 's hilly but it 's not it 's not as bad as |
| 11 | Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about . |
| 12 | The sight of teenage fathers is striking because it is in such stark contrast with the role of their own fathers , who were n't seen pushing prams when they were nineteen . |
| 13 | Lovell is emphatic that it is not a fast-track management programme but a way of offering highly motivated individuals the chance to fully develop themselves in technical , business and behavioural areas . |
| 14 | So it 's strange but it 's er maybe it 's not so strange |
| 15 | It 's strange and it 's only |
| 16 | He is frail and it is upsetting for her . ’ |
| 17 | Everything 's eatable and it 's all cooked and boiling hot and really nice . |
| 18 | This is ironical since it is in this sphere that urban sociology , and arguably sociology more generally , has made its greatest recent advances . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's absurd and it 's profound about parents , children , human selfishness and obviously greed . |
| 20 | The latter alternative is preferable since it is more likely to be seen as constructive and thus win support ( see Building on page 25 ) . |
| 21 | This is why registration in Part A is preferable although it is the defendant who carries the burden of proof . |
| 22 | you know and that 's right because it 's special and I , I really think that you know the U K and perhaps we can world some countries like Sweden and so on because of the high taxation have been able to keep their |
| 23 | No they , they did n't because the that 's right because it was cancelled last year it was the year before she did . |
| 24 | That 's right and it 's the table in the top half . |
| 25 | She can have kids , that 's right and it 's also , well it 's back to his own his own fantasy child is n't it and th his own inability to have children with Martha . |
| 26 | Yes that 's right and it was , that night it was leaking like |
| 27 | ‘ You ca n't pretend he 's normal and it 's no secret that he did n't see eye to eye with Alain . ’ |
| 28 | The emotion that goes into art is subtle and it is the faculty of being able to feel this emotion that constitutes our appreciation of art . |
| 29 | He holds the romantic belief that only the wordless language of music is complete and it is music which has always helped him to live and to write . |
| 30 | The flexibility and cheapness of overdraft borrowing is possible because it is an ‘ on demand ’ facility , and we can therefore call it in at any time . |